O what a heaven is love!
O what a hell!
~ Thomas Dekker ~

Little drops of rain
Whisper of the pain
Tears of love
Lost in the days gone by
~ Robert Plant ~

Your words are my food,
your breath my wine.
You are everything to me
~ Sarah Bernhardt ~

Love: The irresistable desire
to be irresistibly desired
~ Mark Twain ~

Love is like Pi: natural,
irrational, & very important
~ Lisa Hoffman ~

Though I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had
~ Sara Teasdale ~

Love is ever the beginning of
knowledge, as fire is of light
~ Thomas Carlyle ~

What the heart has once owned
and had, it shall never lose
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship - never
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~

Love is the sweetest of dreams,
and the worst of nightmares
~ Shakespeare ~

Deceiving others. That is
what the world calls a romance
~ Oscar Wilde ~

Women speak two languages -
one of which is verbal
~ Shakespeare ~

Unless a woman has an amorous
heart, she is a dull companion
~ Samuel Johnson ~

Love is friendship set to music
~ Edward Pollock ~

The way to love anything is to
realize that it might be lost
~ G. K. Chesterton ~

I've been on so many blind dates,
I should get a free dog
~ Wendy Liebman ~

You are alone my evil & my good.
With you I have everything -
without you nothing
~ Louise Labe ~

Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that was very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse
~ Dorothy Parker ~

People who are sensible about
love are incapable of it
~ Douglas Yates ~

Love is an energy which exists
of itself. It is its own value
~ Thornton Wilder ~

Love is the master key that
opens the gates of happiness
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

Faith is a passionate intuition
~ William Woodsworth ~

I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly
Beard love and dared the cost,
The sented spiel reeled me unreal
And I found my senses lost
~ Maya Angelou ~

There are two tragedies in life.
One is to lose your heart's desire.
The other is to gain it
~ George Bernard Shaw ~

I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars grow old
~ Willam Shakespeare ~

I like not only to be loved, but
also to be told that I am loved
~ George Eliot ~

Love is the emplem of eternity;
it confounds all notions of time;
effaces all memory of begining,
all fear of an end
~ Madame de Stael ~

The magic of first love is our
ignorance that it can never end
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~

Love vanquishes time. To lovers,
a moment can be eternity, while
eternity can be the tick of a clock
~ Mary Parrish ~

Perfect love is rare indeed...
for to be a lover will require
that you continually
have the subtlety of the very wise,
the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher,
the acceptance of the saint,
the tolerance of the scholar
and the fortitude of the certain
~ Leo Buscaglia ~

When we are in love we often
doubt that which we most believe
~ Duc de La Rochefoucauld ~

It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all
~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~

I did not hear the words you said.
Instead, I heard the love
~ Joan Walsh Anglund ~

Love is like an hourglass, with the
heart filling up as the brain empties
~ Jules Renard ~

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it, and it darts away
~ Dorothy Parker ~

The sunlight claps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth
If thou kiss not me?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

You can't reason with your heart; it
has its own laws, and thumps about
things which the intellect scorns
~ Mark Twain ~

It is impossible to repent of love.
The sin of love does not exist
~ Muriel Spark ~

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature
and embroidered by imagination
~ Voltaire ~

Love is an attempt to change a
piece of a dream world into reality
~ Theodor Reik ~

One word frees us of all the weight
& pain in life. That word is love
~ Sophocles ~

Love makes the wildest spirit tame,
and the tamest spirit wild
~ Alexis Delp ~

To a woman the first kiss is just
the end of the beginning but to a
man it is the beginning of the end
~ Helen Rowland ~

Burning desire is the eternal flame
~ Doug Horton ~

The little things are most worthwhile;
a quiet word, a look, a smile
~ Margaret Lindsey ~